Portrait of Anton Fugger

The portrait depicts Anton Fugger (1493-1560), epresentative of an important Augsburg family of bank financiers. The model for portrait is a copy of a lost painting by Titian, the Portrait of Anton Fugger, represented approximately between 55 and 60 years of age, created before 1550, by a painter working within the circle of Titian or Lambert Sustris around 1600, today in Fugger Museum in Babenhausen. The Prague Portrait is another, hitherto unknown version of Fugger’s portrayal, which reduced the half-figure to a bust. The lower elaborateness of some of the details, particularly in the areas of the collar, hair and beard, also the brief and incompact modelling of the head and the dull treatment of the flesh tones, all that supports the idea that this is a copy, suggesting the dating of the painting into the first quarter of the 17th century at the earliest. The character of the painting is influenced by a number of later interventions, though.